"Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one"

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W. H. Auden

#Men Quotes #Honor Quotes #Values Quotes

“When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.”
“There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.”
“We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.”
“Are you a personâ€”with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprisingâ€”or are you a tool? A tool just serves its user. Itâ€™s only as good as the skill of its user, and itâ€™s not good for anything else. So if you want to accomplish something specialâ€”something more than you can do for yourselfâ€”you canâ€™t use a tool. You have to use a person and hope the surprises will work in your favor. You have to use something thatâ€™s free to not be what you had in mind.”
“I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles.”
“No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.”
“I think art has a right â€” not an obligation â€” to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.”
“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.”

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